Small Business

ZU Gallery in Cortez uses creative events like Limericks and Libations to draw local crowds during slower tourism months and shifting seasonal patterns.

M's Music & Repair is nestled between a martial arts studio and a tortilla store in a strip mall just a block from Longmont High. Inside is a treasure trove for music lovers, with orchestra and band instruments being repaired or available to rent in every nook and cranny.

A new, stricter federal definition of legal hemp is raising concerns across the $28 billion hemp industry, with producers and retailers warning it could disrupt a rapidly growing market.

Many business groups are already lobbying against the measures. Gov. Jared Polis, as well as more moderate Democrats at the Capitol, could pose a roadblock to the bills becoming law, too.